Audio conference calls must include a minimum of three participants, including yourself. You can use the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access to start an audio conference call on your telephone by doing one of the following...

In the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access, when you receive a toast for an incoming call, click Redirect, and then do one of the following: Redirect phone calls with Communicator Web Access When you receive...

You can start a conversation or conference, and then add participants by inviting them as described previously or by sending new participants an e-mail invitation that contains the conference URL. At the top of the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft®...

You can invite as many as 31 other people to the same instant messaging conference using the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access. In the Conversatio n window, click Invite , and then click Invite Someone . ...

To send an Instant Message using the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access, do the following: In your Contact List or search results, right-click a contact or group name, and then click Send an Instant Message to...

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 (aka Communicator) has made it easier to work with a variety of different audio and video devices. In majority of the cases, if you simply attach a device to the computer, Communicator automatically detects...

The status icon displays a contact’s availability. The contact card provides additional status and contact information. Right-click the presence symbol next to the name of the person whose detailed status and contact information you want...

Presence status enables you to manage and display availability, activity, and contact information. You can also view the presence status of others. At the top of the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access window...

You can use the 2007 R2 version of Microsoft® Office Communicator Web Access to add users both inside and outside your organization to your Contact List. Contacts outside your organization must use a supported public instant messaging...

In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can share your desktop with other participants, for example to display slides or share other documents and applications. You can also share control so that other participants can provide mouse...

In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, when a contact sends you an instant message invitation, you see an instant message invitation alert in the bottom right corner of your computer screen. Receive an instant message To accept an instant...

By now most of the readers of this blog must have been able to try out the latest features we released as part of OCS 2007 R2 release. One of the most important features for this release was Deskphone-OC Integration, also known as Tanjay-OC Integration...

From its humble beginnings as purely an IM and Presence Web client, CWA catapults itself into relevancy with its 2007 R2 release with the addition of two major OCS modalities – Audio and Desktop sharing! And as if that wasn’t enough, CWA has...

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can start an instant messaging session with a single contact, with multiple contacts, or with a group. Send an Instant Message You typically start an instant messaging session by double...

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you use Access Levels to control the presence information that others see. For example, you probably have a short list of co-workers who you want to have access to your mobile phone number. To make...

Each contact in your Contact List has a Presence button and a status text string that reflects his or her availability and willingness to be contacted. You can use the status indicated by the Presence button to determine which mode of communication...

Each Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 contact, including you, has a full set of presence attributes that describe availability, activity, and willingness to be contacted. Presence attributes also include contact information such as...

Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 provides a full set of personal presence attributes that you can customize and make available to other contacts to help them communicate with you. As shown in this illustration, presence attributes include...

This is the fourth article in the series that explains how Conferencing works in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It builds upon the concepts in the previous articles on Voice, Presence and RCC. The article explains the conference types in...

Office Communicator (OC) 2007 R2 is finally here, and I hope you’ve had a chance to explore some of the cool new features Rajesh mentions in his blog post . Although the release was mostly focused on enhancing the voice experience, we also...

Voicemail has been an important feature of PBXes for years. In Microsoft Office Communicator R2, we have continued to invest in the integration with Exchange Unified Messaging (EUM) to make it easy for you to access your Voicemails and manage...

Your Contact List is a list of co-workers, family, and friends with whom you communicate most often. When you first install Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you must build your Contact List. Search for someone Type a person’s...

You can use the Conferencing Add-In for Microsoft® Office Outlook® to schedule Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 conference calls or Microsoft® Office Live Meeting Web conferences. Schedule Live Meeting Web conferences when...

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, to allow other participants to view your entire computer desktop during a conversation or IM, click the Sharing button, and then click Share Desktop . To share control so that another participant...

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can seamlessly add communication modes to your conferencing session. For example, you can start an IM conversation with a single contact, add additional contacts for an IM conference, and then...